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I know that my humans are planning a holiday, the female one has been looking at Hotels on the “net” and I overheard her making a phone call to get a room with a sea view. I think it is for the male humans’ birthday and it sounds like we are off to the seaside, fantastic.

Apparently the meals are included and the chef has a Michelin star, which must mean I am going to be very well fed!! I imagine I will be sleeping in the superior room with sea view, I hope the window sills are suitably low so that I don’t have to keep reaching up to see out…………….

In the meantime I am having to make do with the odd day trip to the beach at Filey, last time we went I was a bit disappointed as the humans did not order any bacon sandwiches at my favourite café. I am getting quite a taste for them since I managed to sneak one off the trestle table at the Rugby club on my river walk. The lady who was setting up for the barbeque got into a long conversation with my male human, who was with me at the time. She said something about it being her breakfast; I do believe someone bought her another one as she must have still been hungry. She should have been a bit more enterprising and gone for a sausage from the grill which is where I headed after I had savoured the last of the sandwich!!!!!

Then I was treated to another such feast later in the same week when at home the female human made some very nice bacon sandwiches which she left on a plate in the kitchen for me. When the male human came home she had to put the grill on again for some reason, I don’t know why she didn’t just make him one at the same time.

I am visiting my pal TJ for the afternoon in a couple of week’s time; I am going to stay whilst the humans are “at the Races”. I will of course take my own bed round and out of politeness a new bone. I must ask my female human to put a little bow on it so that it is gift wrapped, I want to ensure I am invited again. TJ and I have discussed the visit on one of our regular walks and she will be giving her human plenty of advice on my likes and dislikes. I have stayed before for half a day and I can report that the garden is quite to my taste though I have had to learn not to get too enthusiastic around the garden pond as I have slipped in before. I don’t think I did any lasting damage to the fish!!!!

Also I hope that this time no-one is thoughtless enough to not cook the chicken before they leave it in the worktop, I had awful tummy ache after that and I do recall there were several trips to the garden before it had “all left my system”.

I have a lovely new bed and a very posh “rolled” collar which were purchased at the Yorkshire Show. I was not invited, much to my chagrin, although I do approve of the style and colour choices, the female must have picked them. They go very well with the décor in my conservatory. The collar is apparently a special one for collies (not that I am only a collie you understand) which stops my lovely soft neck fur getting rubbed. This will be the third collar I have had since I started living with my humans. The first one “fell off” when I was wearing a bucket on my head after a small gentleman’s’ operation and I absent mindedly chewed it. The missing piece (about two inches in length) was later retrieved, a bit like the remains of the raw chicken, from the garden. I also have a collar which is just for the seaside so when the humans put that on I know we are off to the coast. Something to do with the salt water and leather not mixing, so that one is a lovely red one though the tag is not so much to my liking as the one on my new collar, which is shaped like a little bone.

Talking of bones I have been to visit the nice people my humans get my food and bones from, they now have a shop in Wetherby so I will of course be putting it on my route when I am walking up from the river. I will have to advise the male human to carry his money (the female calls him the walking wallet, whatever that means) as I don’t want to be seen as a freeloader.

Having said that, when we popped in at the weekend I was treated to a very nice chew, which the female human carried home in her pocket. Well she carried it to the Millennium field (one of my very favourite play spots) and then would you believe it she promptly gave it to Tilly the collie. I suppose it was a fair trade as I did have Tillys’ ball in my mouth at the time, her human calls me the “ball thief” I can’t imagine why. Anyway I kept the game up for a short while and then as you do I left the ball and mooched for a bit and would you believe it Tillys’ human gave me back the chew!!!! He is not all bad.

I have quite a nice life really…………